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While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik
buysstealsrescuesacquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy. -
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Murderbot gets married
not in a weird wayin a very Murderbot way—which means horrendously awkward conversations with the in-laws, no fewer than five panic attacks, and ABSOLUTELY! NO! KISSING!! -
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by gremble
Fandoms: Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
07 Jun 2023
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It takes Robert one evening to fall for the New Guy, and the better part of two years to figure out... everything else.
(For people who find themselves tempted by this fic, but aren't familiar with the game -- might I offer you a ddads primer that will give you all the background you need for it.)
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12-year-old Shane Hollander is forced to make a friend on doctor's orders, and has feelings about it. Which feelings, you ask? ALL OF THEM.
In the same universe / continuity as "storm has set the heavens scowling", by qqueenofhades. Does NOT require familiarity with Shadow and Bone -- I simply imported my OTHER favorite sadboi from it.
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04 Jan 2026
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Broken Piece of Paradise by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Dec 2025
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The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.
The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.
Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.
And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…
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26 Dec 2025
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Sense: Awareness, Perception, Recognition by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Nov 2025
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"I am curious to know if you smell good," Three had said, interrupting Perihelion's much snottier explanation of the same thing. "Or. If the way you smell is good to me."
"Okay," he'd said, nonplussed, and handed over his sweaty shirt, only to belatedly ask, "Is this a sex thing?"
Three and ART have a strange request, for experimental reasons. Tarik thinks why not, it can't get much weirder than that.
Then it gets a lot weirder. Tarik has about fifteen reactions to that, several of them horny.
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- Part 1 of Sensory Experimentation
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The Walls are Bleeding by Polygeminus_grex
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2025
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"It was more like a SecUnit than a bot, so much so I wondered if it was a construct, if there was cloned organic brain tissue buried in its systems somewhere."
-Chapter Two of Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.Bookmarked by gremble
16 Nov 2025
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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10 Oct 2025